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I still need these two! "Ellington in the Air" is another good one I have!

And there being one for Mingus was quite a stretch, no? Three albums done within a few months, only one of them really important... granted, the piano solo album is terrific, but it's rather an oddity in the Mingus oeuvre. His most imporant recordings have been spread among so many labels, it's ridiculous for any of them to claim to be able to present the any story kind of overview of his work - Atlantic would be the most likely candidate, I assume, but then there's Columbia, Candid, Bethlehem, United Artists, Verve, his own Jazz Workshop label, Debut... I am getting so fed-up with all these new compilations. Even the Blue Note policy of reissuing recent reissues starts to get on my nerves. Seems they are not willing to invest any of their $$ from Norah, Madelein Peyroux & Diana Krall into some serious jazz releases, new ones or reissues.

Windows Media Player will rip the files to a specific folder, find out what folder that is, open Explorer, drag the files from that folder onto the folder of your external drive (or any folder therein, where you may want to have it).

Well, I asked for a replacement box for the Django (I once slipped and damaged it...), so I guess they'll need my CC info anyway... but for the Elvin I did only get an automated order confirmation, no shipping email at all! And the scumbags from customs did check the Mosaic website for the prize and charged me for it, although I asked Mosaic to put "educational sample" and zero $$ on the green sticker...

Great idea for a thread - I was watching some jazz DVDs while alone this weekend (Ms ubu is on vacation in sunny Spain for the next two weeks). I was thinking of some kind of thread like this - why don't you (by editing your first post) add a subtitle like "what have you been watching lately" or something like that? I second the recommendation for the Electric Miles/Isle of Wight DVD - it's terrific! First time I watched it it totally blew me away! That set at the Isle of Wight is so tight, and the free flow structure it has, the way they all build something together, the tension/release is terrific! Now what I've been watching: some of the great Jazz Casual shows. First, a DVD collecting three shows with Woody Herman's 1963 band. Sal Nistico is smokin' on the first one, being the main soloist. The later sets also feature others (Billy Chase and someone else on trumpet, the great Phil Wilson on trombone, and of course also Herman, both on alto and clarinet). The second show is sort of a "dance date" show, the band this time wearing nice suits (first show had them in white ugly suits), lots of mellower, tightly arranged stuff, but still with nice solos. There's some nice sax section stuff on this one, too (or is that on the first set?) with all three tenors changing phrases, nice to see a very young Bobby Jones there, too, with a slightly off-kilter, soft sound and some pretty non-virtuoso presidential playing - makes for a good contrast to hot-headed Nistico and the bull-neck playing of the third man). The third set, then has much worse sound (image is only so-so on all, but sound is pretty good on the first two), since it was filmed at a rehearsal. First you see the band rehearsing a new Bill Holman tune, then one pretty rough run-through, and then they do two tunes they know... Jones is gone by now, but there's still Nistico and another round of tenor trade-offs. Then I also watched the Art Pepper show. There was some thread (by aric/chewy?) about how weird Pepper was playing here (1962 or 1963, I think), and how he was under the spell of Coltrane. That may be true for his own alto playing, he does some free-ish sheets of sound stuff that gets pretty wild, but only for rather short spots. Otherwise, he's on the way to where he ended arriving after getting out of prison, doing those great, groovy, lenghty tunes with a simple ostinato and only a spotty, roughly outlined melody as a theme. Frank Strazzeri on piano I found not that great, but Bill Goodwin on drums is pretty good. Last, I watched the Coltrane and Sonny Rollins shows, too, but I got distracted... will have to watch those again later to make some good comments. (Funny how little hair Jim Hall had, even back then... maybe because he had so many great jobs, playing with Chico, Giuffre, Brookmeyer, Desmond, Farmer and Rollins? Pretty astonishing, what he did between, say 1956 and 1964!)

Well, what bad luck I have... getting a readably written number after years of scribbles (and euro mosaics), and then some pages are missing... Haven't heard from them yet, I hope they reply at all - if they just send it out I will be too worried to wait and will be so impolite to ask them again... wanted the Elvin since it came out and would hate to have just this incomplete booklet!

Larry, I just wanted to thank you for pointing out Christophe Schweizer's "Physique" - I was able to pick up a new copy of it for a good prize ten days ago and it's indeed very, very good!

Hm, I don't think the Kenny Drew is all that great, but the Farlow I really enjoy... I liked these couplings of 10" albums quite some.

This one's great, too, originally on IDA, now reissued (I think on Dreyfus): complete with great cover photo by Guy Le Querrec...

Teddy was (the original?) sax player of the Brown/Roach band in California in 1953, one side of that red LP features him, also including one of his best tunes, "Sunset Eyes". Carl Perkins (another tragically underrated musician, it seems) is on piano no those tracks. Oh, wait, I just realise this isn't about Teddy but Maggie... well, big for "Together Again!!!" - I got this in the recent ZYX/Fantasy sales and it's one of my favourite recent purchases! The Definitive compilation mentioned above is good, too. Haven't come around to pick up "Maggie's Back in Town", but it's on "the list"... Oh, another nice one: It features Bennie Green, Roland Alexander, Pepper Adams, Flanagan, Carter & Walter Bolden. I haven't heard his other (one or more?) Bethlehems, but I remember a previous discussion of McGhee's where some said the other(s) were even better. Also, hard to find, most likely, these two CDs are great, both part of the Blue Note 10" (Conn) Series: Both include another 10" record, one has "Kenny Drew Trio" and the other a Tal Farlow album.

More relief, then! I've been playing some Clarke/Boland stuff lately and it would have been a bit of a blow if that had been Griff and I unable to tell so!

#3 Keith Jarrett? I confess I haven't played all those live shows I got yet... but hey, this is definitely from Ibrahim's camp... almost like stealin', at least for the first part, if it's not the man himself! #4: glad I'm not alone in finding the guitar incoherent, Mr. Jack!

I say they should employ guys like us and pay us management salaries because of our vast knowledge

Yes, even more so since someone actually put a readable number in there, and didn't check - I assume if they'd checked it the number would be unreadable...

Ooops! My mistake. I meant 1, 4, 6 and 8. OOOFF! Relief!

There's another rip-off on the Comet (Italian?) label - I saw that one in stores here, for roughly the same crazy swiss prize of the Columbia box. It's astonishing again and again how clueless these vendors are!

I finally got my set, but the booklet misses p. 1/2 (and thus also 15/16) - I hope it's not too late for them to replace it!

Time to play that JiP again, yes. Sad news.

Mike, the Sony - that's the most annoying thing about it, in my opinion - does not have the tracks chronologically! The alternates are all together on half of disc 7 or 8 and then up to the end. I think it also has a couple of live tunes tagged on it, but I don't have it here to check.

You're correct, sorry. I must have mixed it up with some other box sets... I paid 69€ from French Amazon in July 2004. Too many box sets, I assume, in too short time

Ha, I guess we wish so, but sooner or later we'll learn...

I got it for less on French Amazon, can't remember how much it was, but I think in the 35-50 euro range... must have been some kind of sale, but I can't remember. I agree with the statements above, sound is good, the book has an awkward format... but the music is glorious! I have no idea about what's in the Definitive box, but I think one cut (an alternate) was erroneously duplicated on the Columbia box, so it misses one alternate and has another take of that tune twice... I wouldn't know if that mistake has been corrected, it was reported to me by mmilovan.

Great prize for the Buck Clayton! I paid around 100$ for the LP version, alas I play LPs all too rarely, but it's beautiful! Bought the Jelly Roll Box for 20€ - full prize was around 110 or more, but I've been shopping a lot, so the 10% discount I could cashed in was really helpful

Bootlegs, for instance the Miles in Zurich concert that also came out on Jazz Unlimited before (KoB sextet, fantastic show).